History of Past Programs:
Our director, Scott Lounsbury, has been with us since the fall of 2001; these are the programs he has directed with us.
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2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009 (visit again to see!)
Fall '01 "A Jubilant Song"
Sing Unto God--Handel/Condie
Exultate Justi--Viadana
Salvation is Created--Tschesnokoff/Moore
The Last Words of David--Thomson
Cantique de Jean Racine--Faure
The Snow Storm--Hamburg
A Jubilant Song--Pote
Come to Me, O My Love--Petker
Lavender's Blue--Langford
Welsh Lullaby--Scott
Alouette--Bertalot
Ride On, King Jesus--Fleming
Spring '02 "A Sentimental Journey"
A Sentimental Journey Through the Forties--Ades
There's No Business like Show Business--Berlin/Ades
Puttin' on the Ritz--Berlin/Shaw
Mood Indigo--Ellington/Simeone
Satin Doll--Mercer/Ellington/Zegree
Alexander's Ragtime Band--Berlin/Hayes
Don't Get Around Much Anymore--Ellington/Brymer
Cheek to Cheek--Berlin/Ringwald
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor--Berlin/Ringwald
Zip a dee doo dah--Gilbert/Wrubel/Simeone
Heigh Ho--Morey&Churchill/Gray
It's a Small World--Sherman & Sherman/Ades
When You Wish Upon a Star--Washington & Harline/Ringwald
Chim Chim Cheree--Sherman & Sherman/Simeone
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious--Sherman & Sherman/Simeone
Under the Sea--Ashman & Menken/Billingsley
Fall '02 "Sing On!... the Food of Love"
My Spirit Sang All Day--Finzi
Three Gypsy Songs--Brahms/Hirt
O Occhi, Manza Mia--Lasso
April is In My Mistress’ Face--Morley
Mon Coeur se Recommande--Lasso
Rest, Sweet Nymphs--Pilkington
The Rose of Sharon--Billings
A Red, Red Rose--Mulholland
Set Me as a Seal --Clausen
Of Love--Duson
I Dream of Jeanie--Foster,
arr. Shaw/Parker
Beautiful Dreamer--Foster,
arr Teolis
Come Where My Love--Foster,
Shaw/Parker
All the Things You Are--Kern/Zegree
Love Walked In--Gershwin/Zegree
If Music Be the Food of Love--Dickau
Spring '03 "Songs from the Heartland"
All that hath Life and Breath--Clausen
Testament of Freedom (cantata)--Thompson
Shenandoah--arr.
Erb
All the Pretty Horses (SSA)--arr.
Crocker
Stomp Your Foot--Copland
Simple Gifts (SSA)--Copland/Fine
Promise of Living--Copland
June is Bustin’ Out--R&H/Stickles
Nothing Like a Dame (TTBB)--R&H, Sickles
Grand Night for Singing--R&H, Sickles
Deep River--Luboff
Deep River--DeCormier
Live a Humble--Bagley
All My Trials--Luboff
Praise His Holy Name--Hampton
Amazing Grace--Lojeski
Fall '03 "In Good Company"
Performed with musicians from the Concord Community Music School
Hallelujah, Amen --by G F Handel
Laudate Dominum --by Claudio Monteverdi
Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)-- by J S
Bach
Gloria in Excelsis (from the 12th Mass) --of W A Mozart
Laudate Dominum (from the Solemn Vespers of the Confessor) --by W A
Mozart
Regina Coeli --by W A Mozart
How Lovely is Thy Dwelling
Place (from A German Requiem) --by J Brahms
Zum Sanctus (from Deutche Messe, or “German Mass”) --by F Schubert
Awake the Harp (from The Creation)-- by F J Haydn
The Dodger-- Copland/Fine
The Boatmen’s Dance--Copland/Fine
Long Time Ago--Copland/Fine
At The River--Copland/Fine
Ching a Ring Chaw--Copland/Fine
For the Beauty of the Earth--Rutter
Spring '04 "Nigh on a Century Ago"
Performed with The Moose Mountain Jazz Band
Get Happy--Arr. Hawley
Ades
Twentiana--Arr.
Hawley Ades
Smiles--Arr.
Hawley Ades
Let’s
Sing the Old Songs--Arr. Harry Simeone
The
Varsity Drag--G.B. DeSylva, Lew Brown
& Ray
Fall '04 "The Contemporaries"
Savory Sage Rosemary and Thyme--Donald Patriquin
The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly--Joshua Shank
Can You Hear--Jim
Papoulis
Who Sees? (poem by M Ross, age 15)--Sherri Porterfield
Prayer for the Children--Bestor/Klouse
Remember--Chatman/Rosetti
Deep Peace--Greg
Knauf
The Awakening--Joseph
Martin
La Rose Complete--Morten Lauridsen
Dirait On--Morten Lauridsen
Music Down in My Soul--Moses
Hogan
Tambourines (from Harlem Songs)
(Langston Hughes)Gwyneth Walker
Let Music Fill the Air--Gwyneth
Walker
Directions for Singing--Gwyneth Walker
True Light--Keith
Hampton
Spring '05 "Folk Songs of the Americas"
Performed with the Folk Music Duo, Austen & Woods
Oh, dear! What can the matter be?--arranged by Gail Kubik
Polly-Wolly Doodle--arr. Gail Kubik
Eu e Você--Brazilian Folk Song, arr. J. Edmund Hughes
Guantanamera--Traditional Cuban
I’se the B’y--arr, Robert Swift
Cape Breton Lullaby--Kenneth Leslie, arr. Stuart Calvert
Away from the Roll of the Sea--Allister MacGillivray, with John C. O’Donnell
Song for the Mira--Allister MacGillivray, arr. Stuart Calvert
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing--arr. Mack Wilberg
Jamaican Market Place--Larry Farrow
Old Joe Clark--arr. Mack Wilberg
Keep Your Lamps!--arr. André Thomas
Keep Your Lamps--arr. Austen and Woods
Have Your Lamps Gone Out?--arr. Malcolm Dalglish
Bayou Sara--arr. Malcolm Dalglish
Sail Away!--arr. Malcolm Dalglish
Fall '05 "A Night At The Opera"
Overture to La Clemenza di Tito--W. A. Mozart
Music, Spread Thy Voice Around--G.F. Handel, ed. Ethan Lehavi
Neighbors’ Chorus, from La jolie Parfumeuse--Jacques Offenbach ed. Meyrowitz
The Shepherds’ Chorus, from Amahl and the Night Visitors--G. C. Menotti
Humming Chorus, from Madame Butterfly--G. Puccini, ed. Helferstedt
The Duke and Duchess Duet, from The Gondoliers--W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan
“Va, pensiero,” from Nabucco--G. Verdi, ed. Jura
Anvil Chorus, from Il trovatore--G. Verdi, ed. Rutter
“What a joy to be here,” from Die Fledermaus--Richard Strauss
Heil sei euch Gewheiten! from Die Zauberflöte--W. A. Mozart, ed. Jura
William Tell Overture--Giaocchino Rossini, arranged by Julie Eschliman
“Three Little Maids,” from The Mikado--W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan
“With aspect stern and gloomy stride,” Finale, Act I, from The Mikado--W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan
Papageno Duet, from The Magic Flute--W. A. Mozart
The Phantom of the Opera--Andrew Lloyd Webber, arranged by Ed Lojeski
Make Our Garden Grow, from Candide--L. Bernstein, arr. Page
"Bohemian Rhapsody" from A Night at the Opera--Freddie Mercury and Queen
Spring '06 "Songs, Silly & Sweet"
Performed with the Concord Community Music School's children's chorus, The Purple Finches
Simple Gifts--arranged by Joseph M. Martin
Come To Me, O My Love--Allan Robert Petker
Lavender’s Blue--arr. Gordon Langford
The Shepherdess--arr. Mack Wilberg
Brown Penny--Kenneth Mahy on words of W. B. Yeats
Thought of My Thoughts--Kenneth Mahy on words of Hans Christian Anderson
When I’m 64--John Lennon & Paul McCartney
The Art of the Ground Round--P. D. Q. Bach
My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth--P. D. Q. Bach
Oh Pretty Maidens Fine--Thomas Morley
Somewhere Over the Rainbow--E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen, arr. Audrey Snyder
Consider Yourself (from Oliver)--Lionel Bart, arr. N. Leyden
Three Rounds--traditional
We Gather Here Together--arr. Diebler
Where the Music Comes From--Lee Hoiby
No One’s Perfect--Alan Sherman, arr. Walter Rodby
Listen to the Chorus--Ken Langer
The Lobster Quadrille--Irving Fine, words by Lewis Carroll
Father William--Irving Fine, words by Lewis Carroll
Lydia, the Tattooed Lady--Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Go, Lovely Rose--Kenneth Mahy on words of Edmund Waller
Go, Lovely Rose--Eric Thiman on words of Edmund Waller
Jabberwocky--Sam Pottle, words by Lewis Carroll
Fall '06 "Songs of Celebration"
Performed with musicians from the Concord Community Music School and the Nevers Band
Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi
Mvt. I: Gloria
II: Et in terra pax
IV: Gratias agimus tibi
V: Propter magnam gloriam tuam
VII: Domine fili unigenite
IX. Qui tollis peccata mundi
XI. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
XII. Cum sancto spiritu
Te Deum, Wolfgang A. Mozart
I. Te Deum Laudamus
II. Aetarna Fac
III. In Te Domine
For the Beauty of the Earth, John Rutter (words by F. S. Pierpont)
Fanfare for a Festival, Ron Nelson
All Ye Who Music Love, Baldassare Donato
Long Time Ago, trad. American, setting by Scott P. Lounsbury
If Music Be the Food of Love, David C. Dickau, tect by Henry Heveningham
Play a Simple Melody, Irving Berlin, arranged by Donald Moore
I Hear America Singing, Andre J. Thomas
Spring '07 "A Silver Screen Anniversary"
Performed with the Moose Mountain Jazz Band
A Sentimental Journey Through the 40’s--arranged by Hawley Ades
Too Darn Hot--Cole Porter, arr. Mac Huff
Selections from the Moose Mountain Jazz Band
Medley from Guys and Dolls--Frank Loesser, arr. Mac Huff
Irving Berlin: A Century of Song--arr. Mac Huff
Fall '07 "America, the Dream Goes On"
The National Anthem--arr. Richard Huggins
Shenandoah--arr. James Erb
Home of the Range--arr. Mark Hayes
The Gift To Be Simple--arr. Bob Chilcott
Followers of the Lamb--Shaker Tune, arr. Philip R. Dietterich
Chester--William Billings
The Last Full Measure of Devotion--Scott P. Lounsbury
i. Pie Jesu, Domine….from the Roman Catholic Mass
ii. I Must Study War…. from a letter of John Adams
iii. Liberty Tree….from a letter of Thomas Jefferson
iv. In Flanders Fields….a poem of Dr. John MacRae
v. On Behalf of a Grateful Nation….original poem
vi. The Last Full Measure….excerpting Abraham Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg
The Navy Hymn--John B. Dykes, arr. Tom Scott
This is my country--Raye & Jacobs, arr. Roy Ringwald
Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears--Brendan Graham, arr. John Leavitt
All Too Soon--Celtic tunes, arr. Stephen Hatfield
Hold On!--arr. Moses Hogan
Wheels of a Dream--Ahrens & Flaherty, arr. John Leavitt
The Promise of Livin--Horace Everett and Aaron Copland
The Voice of America--Greg Gilpin
America… The Dream Goes On--Alan and Marilyn Bergman, John Williams
Spring '08 "American Poets, Prose and Praise"
Performed with readers: Alison Charbeneau and Doris Ballard
Come Travel With Me--Scott Farthing, inspired by Walt Whitman
Night on the Prairies--Walt Whitman, Daniel Lee Pederson
The Pasture--Z. Randall Stroope
Frostiana--Randall Thomson
1. The Road Not Taken
5. A Girl’s Garden
4. The Telephone
7. Choose Something Like a Star
I Dream a World--Langston Hughes, André J. Thomas
My People--Langston Hughes, Scott P. Lounsbury
Hold Fast to Dreams--Langston Hughes, André J. Thomas
The Morning Trumpet--John Leland (1754-1841); Mack Wilberg
Ching-A-Ring-Chaw--Aaron Copland, arr. Irving Fine
Americana--Luigi Zaninelli
True Light (on This Little Light of Mine)--Keith Hampton
Elijah Rock--Traditional Spiritual, arr. Jester Hairston
In His Care-O--William L. Dawson
Ain’-a That Good News--William L. Dawson
Great Day--Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan
Praise His Holy Name--Keith Hampton
Ride On, King Jesus--Traditional Spiritual, arr. Larry L. Fleming